Museums, towers and siege memories
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West of the centre, Marijin Dvor brings together the National Museum, the History Museum, parliament and modern towers. This is where the main avenue was nicknamed “Sniper Alley” during the siege.
The district takes its name from the palace built in 1895 by an Austrian entrepreneur for his wife, Marija. The bright yellow Holiday Inn housed foreign journalists during the war.
